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Is discus a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word discus is a Scrabble US word. The word discus is worth 9 points in Scrabble:

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Is discus a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word discus is a Scrabble UK word and has 9 points:

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6-letter words (1 found)

DISCUS,

5-letter words (4 found)

DISCS,SCUDI,SCUDS,SUIDS,

4-letter words (10 found)

CIDS,CUDS,CUSS,DISC,DISS,DUCI,SCUD,SICS,SUDS,SUID,

3-letter words (12 found)

CID,CIS,CUD,DIS,DUI,IDS,SIC,SIS,SUD,SUI,SUS,UDS,

2-letter words (5 found)

DI,ID,IS,SI,US,

You can make 32 words from discus according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of discus

discus

Etymology

1656. From Latin discus, from Ancient Greek δίσκος (dískos, “disk, quoit, platter”). Doublet of dais, desk, disc, dish, disk, and diskos.

Pronunciation

  • (UK, US, Canada, General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈdɪs.kəs/
  • Rhymes: -ɪskəs

Noun

discus (plural discuses)

  1. A round plate-like object that is thrown for sport.
  2. (uncountable, athletics) The athletics event of discus throw.
  3. (plural: discus) A discus fish (genus Symphysodon)
  4. (rare, dated) A chakram.

Usage notes

  • Although an alternative Latinate plural disci is often cited, it is hardly ever used in practice.

Synonyms

  • (round plate): quoit

Derived terms

  • discus fish
  • discus throw
  • discus thrower

Translations

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin discus, from Ancient Greek δίσκος (dískos). First attested in the eighteenth century.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdɪskʏs/
  • Hyphenation: dis‧cus
  • Rhymes: -ɪskʏs

Noun

discus m (plural discussen, diminutive discusje n)

  1. discus
    Synonym: werpschijf

Derived terms

  • discuswerpen

Related terms

  • dis
  • disc
  • diskette

Descendants

  • → Indonesian: diskus

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek δίσκος (dískos).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈdis.kus/, [ˈd̪ɪs̠kʊs̠]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈdis.kus/, [ˈd̪iskus]

Noun

discus m (genitive discī); second declension

  1. a discus, quoit
  2. a dish shaped like a discus
  3. disc of a sundial
  4. a plate
  5. (Medieval Latin) table, a piece of furniture with a flat surface to eat from or write upon

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Descendants

References

  • “discus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “discus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • discus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • discus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “discus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “discus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

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